Manx clergyman, schoolmaster and participant in the eighteenth-century translation of the Scriptures into Manx.

Moore served for many years as chaplain of St Matthew’s Chapel in Douglas and as master of the town’s Grammar School. An extract from his will describes him as Rector of Bride and states that he had been chaplain of St Matthew’s from 1735 to 1765, the schoolmastership being connected with that office.

Among his pupils was John Kelly, later author of the Manx Grammar and one of the principal revisers of the Manx Bible. Kelly’s nineteenth-century biographer states that he attended the Douglas Grammar School under Moore and became a favourite pupil, partly through his command of the vernacular Manx language.

Moore was himself closely involved in the translation work undertaken under Bishop Mark Hildesley. Later accounts name him among the revisers of the Manx Scriptures and show him working with other clergy including Matthias Curghey and James Wilks. When Curghey died in 1771, Archdeacon Mylrea wrote to Moore describing Curghey as a public loss to Mann and a particular loss to Moore in his “arduous undertaking”; Moore replied by calling him his “learned friend and fellow labourer”.

Moore’s will also preserved a curious object associated with the old Nunnery near Douglas. He bequeathed to the Grammar School house a painting purporting to represent Christ, directing that it should remain in the house where it then stood.